Sync up with Jesus
I’ve planned it, so it’s as good as done. ~ Isaiah 46:10 (MSG)
Jesus then said, “So it is. Everyone who is now first will be last, and everyone who is last will be first.” ~ Matthew 20:16 (CEV)
KEY THOUGHT:
God has an agenda which he is implementing -- and often it stands everything we think is true on its head.
PRAYER:
God, thank you for your continued involvement with the world -- the world in which I exist. I admit that my plans for the world are at odds with your plans. Help me to sync my agenda with your agenda so that I can end up in the circle of success. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul. The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase -- a freestyle biblical adaptation -- somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
